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  • Caitlin Moran If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Hannah More If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
    Hannah More
    British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist (1745 - 1833)
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  • Boethius If first you rid yourself of hope and fear
    You have dismayed the tyrant's wrath:
    But whosoever quakes in fear or hope,
    Drifting and losing his mastery,
    Has cast away his shield, has left his place,
    And binds the chain with which he will be bound.
    De Consolatione Philosophia
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • William Somerset Maugham If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Boris Johnson If gay marriage was OK ... then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men; or indeed three men and a dog.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Bernie S. Siegel If God had made a perfect world, it would be a magic trick, not creation, with no meaning or place for us to learn and create. Mankind is not yet ready for a perfect world. We do not know how to appreciate perfection.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Zig Ziglar If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bria Skonberg If Harry Connick Jr. wants to call me and ask me to join his band, that would be fine with me. I'm happy, but if he calls, I would pick up.
    Bria Skonberg
    Canadian jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1983 - )
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  • Mark Twain If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ben Jonson If he were
    To be made honest by an act of parliament
    I should not alter in my faith of him.
    The Devil Is an Ass Act IV, scene 1.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Cale Yarborough If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.
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  • Jonathan Swift If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Martin Luther If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
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  • Rabbi Hillel If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
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  • Ben Schnetzer If I audition for a job that I don't get, to be honest with you, I'd rather my friend get it. I think there also has to be an acknowledgement of the fact that, as an actor, being in employment is not the norm.
    Ben Schnetzer
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • Brandon Routh If I become defensive and upset right away, then that's going to adversely affect how I deal with it and it's probably not going to be good press for me and probably be bad just because I'm angry. Just be open and pleasant.
    Brandon Routh
    American actor (1979 - )
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  • Barbara Kruger If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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